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Michelle Shepard is a white woman with blond hair. She is wearing a purple plaid shirt with a pink scarf. She is facing Ismael Abdulle, a young Black man with black hair who is wearing a white long-sleeved shirt. They are standing in front of a barricade in Mogadishu.

The Perfect Story Review: Or, When the Story Changes

by Pat Mullen
October 4, 2022
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Journalist and filmmaker Michelle Shephard revisits the tale of her 2010 subject Ismael Abdulle and finds a new and unexpected angle with The Perfect Story.

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The Perfect Story to Kick Off 22nd Doc Soup Season

by Pat Mullen
August 9, 2022
Hot Docs

Doc Soup returns to Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema on October 5 with the Toronto premiere of The Perfect Story, directed by Michelle Shepard.

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Sabaya Review: As Powerful As It Is Problematic

by Pat Mullen
October 20, 2021October 22, 2021
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Hogir Hirori's acclaimed Sabaya captures the plight of Yazidi women in ways both compelling and problematic.

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‘My Father the Spy’: A Family Saga of Cold War Espionage

by Pat Mullen
November 13, 2019August 27, 2021
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My Father the Spy (Latvia/Germany/Czech Republic/Estonia, 82 min.) Dir. Gints Grube, Jaak Kilmi Don’t even dare blink. My Father the Spy is a wild-but-true tale full of twists, turns, and unexpected revelations. The information

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‘The River and the Wall’ Travels Borderland Beauty

by Pat Mullen
October 1, 2019August 27, 2021
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The River and the Wall (USA, 109 min.) Dir. Ben Masters The list of stupid things Donald Trump has said or done is too vast to remember. However, if one formed them into bricks,

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Barbara Kopple’s “Canadian” Documentary

by Pat Mullen
April 2, 2019August 21, 2021
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Barbara Kopple discusses her documentary New Homeland, which observes a group of young Syrian and Iraqi refugees attend a summer camp in Algonquin Park. The director talks about sharing the kids' story,

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‘Panama Papers’ Spotlights Truth Tellers in a Dark Age

by Pat Mullen
March 6, 2019August 28, 2021
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The Panama Papers (USA, 97 min.) Dir. Alex Winter Alex Winter is quickly becoming a master of something one could call the techno-thriller documentary. After the Napster doc Downloaded (2013) and the true crime

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Review: ‘Finding Hygge’

by Pat Mullen
January 9, 2019August 28, 2021
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Finding Hygge (USA, 93 min.) Dir. Rocky Walls I’ll admit that work/life balance is an alien concept to me, partly because I simply enjoy what I do. However, I have definitely never

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Review: ‘Two Trains Runnin’

by Pat Mullen
January 23, 2018October 24, 2021
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Two Trains Runnin’ (USA, 80 min.) Dir. Sam Pollard   The number of good American music docs that combine the songs of the South with the nation’s turbulent history of racism are

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Review: ‘Bending the Arc’

by Pat Mullen
October 2, 2017October 31, 2021
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Bending the Arc (USA, 102 min.) Dir. Kief Davidson, Pedro Kos   The right to health care—and, by implication, the right to life—is under the microscope again. Thanks to the unhealthy advice

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